Electric Summer
Maya clutched her iPhone like a lifeline, thumb hovering over Tyler's text—*u coming?*—while her heart did gymnastics she hadn't signed up for. Her best friend Jayla was already th...
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Maya clutched her iPhone like a lifeline, thumb hovering over Tyler's text—*u coming?*—while her heart did gymnastics she hadn't signed up for. Her best friend Jayla was already th...
The pool shimmered like liquid sapphires under the July sun, but Maya's stomach was doing backflips that had nothing to do with the heat. This was THE party — the one everyone woul...
Maya stared at her reflection, the bathroom mirror fogged up from the shower. Her hair—once boring brown—now blazed fox orange, thanks to a DIY kit she'd bought with saved-up babys...
Maya's palms were sweating so bad she could practically fill a water bottle. Standing by the concession stand, she watched Jake Rodriguez swing his baseball bat—*crack*—another hom...
Maya pretended to be deeply fascinated by her phone, but really she was running Operation Papaya — a full-on recon mission to find out whether Jake from AP Bio actually liked her b...
The pool party was already popping when Maya arrived, her curls frizzing in the July heat like she'd stuck her finger in an electrical socket. She'd spent two hours flat-ironing he...
Maya's hair had staged a rebellion. Again. She stared in the bathroom mirror, her natural curls forming what could only be described as an accidental pyramid on top of her head. A...
Maya's legs burned as she rounded the track for the third time, running from the conversation she'd overheard by the bleachers. The popular girls—Chloe's pyramid scheme, they calle...
The hat was doing heavy lifting. Like, serious heavy lifting. Under the brim of Maya's oversized dad cap, I could stare without being *that* guy who stares. Not that I was staring....
The papaya sat on my nightstand, tropical and wrong, like my mom's attempt to make our basement apartment feel like Hawaii. Tomorrow was freshman orientation, and my stomach was do...
My heart was doing that thing where it hammer-drops against my ribs like it's trying to break out. Which, honestly, fair. The entire junior class was staring at me from the bleache...
Maya's therapist said she needed to put herself out there. Whatever that meant. So here she was, at Jessica's end-of-summer rager, nursing a lukewarm soda and watching a **goldfish...